Inputs
- Business outcome and service criticality
- Security, compliance and data requirements
- Recovery, scale, cost and support constraints
Azure DevOps Academy · applied workshop
Guided Design Exercise
Practise converting requirements into a supportable technical design with explicit trade-offs.
Design method
- Draw context and trust boundaries
- Select components and integration patterns
- Model failure modes and recovery paths
- Record rejected options and trade-offs
Evidence
- Architecture diagram
- Decision log
- Risk and dependency list
- Operational acceptance criteria
Completion evidence
Produce a timed workshop output for Azure DevOps Academy: diagram or decision record, named actions, unresolved risks and a concise five-minute presentation.